Summary: Cari is joined by Branick of LOTRO Academy this week, and thought it was episode 213. Her other co-hosts were unavailable or maybe she locked them in a basement. Who knows? We talked about taking Hobbits to Isengard, livestream news, and concerts. Listen now: What We Did in Game Branick- did a little dance, made a little love, got down tonight hopefully made Cari laugh Cari Yule Festival Instances Finder Instances to use up the rest of my VIP bonus News From Sapience’s Livestream on 1/3/2014 USA and EU characters will never be able to transfer servers. When Turbine took the servers back from Codemasters, the standards that Turbine set were not followed. If they transferred your characters, they could end up on someone elses account and you would never get them back. Northern Mirkwood is not on roadmap for this year. The team has read all the suggestions for housing revamps. ALL. Horseshoe hint: Everyone needs some luck with a snowball fight. The horseshoe keeps being changed and added to as developers add more things to it. First Agers: Soon™ Lotteries: the last power loss took out the hardware that runs the lotteries. No plans to merge servers LUA: The creator of the LUA plugin system is still with the company. It is a pet project and he updates it as a hobby. Rift may never be updated. Many love the Rift and it may never be updated because they would have to change a lot of things in it that they feel players would not like. Such as break it up into sections and update raid mechanics. So the love for the Rift is preventing the Rift form being scaled. Some instances will be scaled this year, but he doesn’t know what ones. There are a lot of talks about PVMP that can’t be talked about. There is talk on adding larger group sizes in some of the epic battles. Cosmetics for weapons and shields are impossible and can not be done. Inventory discussion is going on right now. Possible crafted quest items to cut down on storage. “Did not talk about this much. Could this mean crafted task stuff?” Creeps being let loose in the main world has been brought up a lot. The answer that always follows is *oh hell no* Sapience has made 29 hunters on 29 servers https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7064215#post7064215 https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?537901-Take-the-Hobbits-to-Isengard http://www.twitch.tv/turbine_sapience He has a challenge of taking a level 10 hunter to Isengard. Here’s how it works The day before the challenge, I’ll announce the server chosen at random and the time the challenge starts. The challenge starts at the milestone outside The Prancing Pony in Bree. Each server is allowed two tries during the live stream. If my Hobbit is defeated he’ll reset to the milestone outside the Prancing Pony and you’ll need to start again. After the second defeat occurs, the challenge is over and the group has failed. Important details My Hobbit will be on foot. No mounts. Because a level 10 Hobbit isn’t much of a fighter past certain areas, my Hobbit will /follow one person the group designates. Make sure it’s someone who knows the way! GM’s will be notified prior to each event. So anyone with plans to grief, harass, or otherwise make trouble during the event should be aware the GMs are on call and watching the stream. So even if I miss it, they probably won’t. The idea here is to have FUN! Every server will get a chance to try and get the Hobbits to Isengard. Time will be the ranking method. The fastest time gets the top slot. An official leaderboard thread will be created and all official times and success/failure information will be posted there. Yule Contest Winners Announced https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7064210#post7064210 For all players a free Cloak of the Dove Coupon: YULE13 1 redemption per account.
